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Your Writing System Sucks
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Kelatetía, Koitra, Illera message
In this case it took (\b|^|[^\w]) for the preceding match and just \b for the following match—that is, a word boundary, a non-word character, or the start of the string. I guess ^ may not be strictly necessary, but, y'know, better safe than sorry.